Little children aren’t the only ones who enjoy toasted oat cereal, so do mockingbirds, blackbirds, chickadees and jays.

Other types of cereal to try are corn flakes or even better, cereal with fruit and/or nuts added – just be sure to crush with a rolling pin before feeding to the birds.

You can also combine cereal with your bird food. Adding peanut butter, peanut oil or meat drippings to cereal will entice birds even further.

**Do not feed birds sugar-coated cereals or those with marshmallows added.**

So, the next time you have just a little bit of cereal left at the bottom of the box, feed it your birds, or you can store it in a large resealable plastic bag in your freezer to have on hand just in case you run out of bird food.

Have you ever fed cereal to birds? What type of cereal did you use and what kind of birds did you attract? Please tell us!

What a good way for a special treat for our Feathered Friends. I watched a small female Cardinal try to land on our feeder, but she seemed to be spooked. After several times trying, Mom fed her. It was really cute to watch. Now I will give the special treats about once a week.
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Yes, we have been using cereal as feed for a few months now. We had purchased FiberOne, didn’t like the taste ourselves, and decided to put a handful out in a dish so that it wouldn’t go to waste…we put it out every few days (when it isn’t going to rain), discovering that the squirrels and chipmunks are eating it – and it seems to be keeping them away from the birdfeeders!

When the weather is really cold here in Ohio, I take peanut butter and put it around the sticks that my cockatiel eats his honey stick from, roll it in bird seed, and use the hanger to hang it around in the shrubs in back of the house. The small birds especially like it. I put black oiled sunflower seeds in the feeders, even the small birds like those and buy cracked corn for the doves, feed them on the groung as they seldom get in the feeders.

I toast oatmeal and mix with chopped apples, cranberries, peanut butter and wild bird seed mixed in for when we are getting a freeze warning. Also, I use bacon grease mixed with peanut butter and seed feozen into cupcake pans, then put them out in an old onion mesh bag hung on branches. They love it!

I tossed a bunch of stale cereal in my open compost bin a few days ago. Now, I have about 50 sparrows hovering around my bin and ignoring my feeders. They keep looking at my window like they want some more. Sorry fellas, my kids love cereal and it is rare for them to let it get stale in my house. I may have to make a trip to the $1 store to see if they have some cheap, no sugar cereal boxes next time I am running low on feed.

I ran out of bird seed today 3/6/15 and gave them some Honey-Comb Cereal because it had just snowed. All of them ate it…several blue jays, several cardinals, 1 woodpecker, assorted finches and a group of birds I couldn’t identify -black with yellow beaks. I’m in Maryland.